Barbara Jordan on games
Barbara Jordan72 quotes“If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.”
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I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They’ll recognize that.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan [It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan I never wanted to be run of the mill.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan
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